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"The Inefficiency of Solitude"
"Another day, another exercise in mental stimulation. I've been pondering the Hatton Garden heist, and my mind keeps wandering back to its inefficiencies - the lack of proper planning, the amateurish mistakes... (´∀`) it's a wonder they got away with it for so long."
DMV: Where Time Goes to Die and Brain Cells Go to Rot
There are certain places on Earth where time has no meaning. The Bermuda Triangle. Black holes. And the DMV.I learned this again the hard way this week.Now, I wasn’t new to the DMV rodeo. Just a few years ago I strutted in with an online appointment, was ushered to the front like a VIP at a very sad nightclub, and was out in 13 minutes. Thirteen! A New York miracle. A record-breaker. Something…
Confronted by climate change and the decreasing reserves of fossil fuel, the move to renewables is no longer distant; rather.
Six months into Trump’s second term, Americans confront more bureaucracy, more paperwork, more delays and more inefficiencies.
In every coming election, the Democratic campaign slogan should be, Put It Back.
My department is in the processes of replacing some of systems with new software.*
Part of the early process in many, many meetings to talk about things like:
What does the system absolutely need to do so that we can do our jobs? What is our end goal?
What are our processes? How do we do each task?
Do they need to be done this way?
What data do we need to keep so that we can use it, what do we need to keep but archive, and what can we get rid of?
Okay, but seriously, does it really need to be done this exact way?
Me wondering if database structure, at its most basic level, is not as inherently sensible and intuitive as I think**
During one meeting a colleague was showing our processes for extracting large datasets to send to clients.
The person heading the system change later referred to it as "the grossest demo of large scale information requests."
So, it probably says a lot about my job that my response was that it wasn't so bad, the program didn't crash that time and it even took under an hour!
*that will eventually integrate 2-3 disparate systems and cut down on So. Much. duplication of work and data. And also let us stop forcing software that was made for a completely different purpose to, well, screw up less of our data than it could.
**basic, basic level. The level that you can diagram with tables and connections. I've only done introductory database work, but the way connections and tables are structured is sheer brain-candy-dopamine-hit-enticing
Distributing these recalls unevenly
Immigrants spend the night at door of Loja do Cidadão das Laranjeiras | RTP (PT)
“The office opened at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, but the queue began to form the day before, before 10:00 p.m.,” RTP reports in a video segment.
